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Revision as of 20:45, 23 April 2007
Contents
Description
This is a page about getting started with GMOD. If you want to set up your own MOD model organism database, this is a good place to start.
- If you want a specific component like GBrowse, Apollo or CMap, visit the page for that application.
- Or take a look at the page that lists all of the GMOD Components.
- There is also a page that talks about Getting Started with Chado if you think you need a relational database that can handle biological detail.
- There's an introduction to GMOD entitled GMOD for the Biologist.
Getting Advice
If you need advice you can write to one of a number of GMOD mailing lists, these tend to focus on more technical aspects. Another good resource is the GMOD Help Desk - feel free to write them with questions on any type, they are tasked with providing support to newcomers and experts alike.
Documentation
- GMOD Components - a list of the components that make up GMOD.
- GMOD for the Biologist - an introduction to GMOD.
Installation
There are different ways to install the subset of GMOD components needed to get a working organism database.
Using VMWare Images
VMWare images provide a simple way to try GMOD software without installing it on your local machine. You download VMWare Player and an virtual machine image that contains GMOD software pre-installed and configured. This image then runs as a stand-alone computer inside the virtual machine provided by VMWare Player. This option is currently in development, see the VMWare HOWTO for more information.
Using yum on Unix
One easy way assumes that you have a computer with CentOS 4 freshly installed so that you can take advantage of several 'short cut' packages that have been prebuilt for that operating system and are available from biopackages.net. See the Biopackages HOWTO for more information on this option.
Installing from Source
The harder way is for any other OS and requires just about everything to be built from source. A list of stable releases is found here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27707.
Getting the Latest & Greatest Version by CVS
There are many new features in the development versions which have not been released yet. To get the latest version of a GMOD component you can use anonymous CVS. Here is the recipe:
>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod login CVS password: <hit return> >cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmod co <component>
For a list of all the GMOD components that can be accessed by CVS, or checked out, see http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27707.
Contacts
There are number of GMOD or GMOD-related mailing lists, each focused on a particular component.
If you have more general questions a good mailing list is gmod-schema or contact the GMOD Help Desk, this Help Desk has been created with a particular aim of assisting those who are new to GMOD - write the Help Desk at wg-emod@nescent.org.
